What Tom Corbett said and what he did re Joe Paterno

From THE REPUBLIC: “Branstetter, also Corbett’s nonvoting representative on the Penn State board, often served as a conduit for university officials to the governor’s office as they attempted to control the fallout…”

“David Saxe, an education professor at Penn State, wrote the governor to criticize a lack of transparency on the campus. ’Every dean, every department head, every administrator . . . was forced to swear fidelity or be silenced,’ he wrote. ‘I urge you to do anything to change this culture . . . that has become Penn State.’”

“Their correspondences were met with a curt form response urging their authors to contact Penn State: ‘Gov. Corbett does not have authority over the university’s internal personnel decisions.’”

From FOX NEWS: (Nov. 11, 2011)Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett defended his decision to vote to fire Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno while predicting Sunday that more young victims of ex-defensive coordinator Joe Sandusky will come forward.

Corbett, who as governor is on the university’s board of trustees, told “Fox News Sunday” that even though a grand jury determined Paterno did nothing criminal by not taking further action than reporting to his boss that he heard Sandusky had raped a child in the football team’s locker room, that wasn’t good enough…

Corbett added that while being cautious about discussing a case still under investigation, he saw in Paterno — and University President Graham Spanier, who was also fired — “a failure to act.”

Credo

"....I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem." Thomas Paine, Common Sense, on "Financing the War", March 5, 1782